This time last year the media was consoling everyone with the theory that "checks and balances" would keep any excessive Trump lies and corruption at bay...

Problem was, the Founders didn't imagine that the whole party would defy the Constitution and thier oaths to basic morality and truth to support Trump in treason (at least that's what the media keeps telling us)

Instead of EVEN LOOKING AT any abuse of power by the Trump Administration, the Republicans went the other way...

i.e....

As part of this campaign to undermine anyone investigating Trump the GOP organized an extremely sophisticated and inept disinformation campaign...

Nunes wrote a memo that teh DOJ told him NOT to realse...

And the funny part is that David Nunes had to recuse himself because of personal involvement so supporting his memo is obstruction of justice of the worst kind by ALL Republicans!...

Best part of the whole attempt to subvert justice by hindering an investigation for Trump was that Nunes didn't even use all the intelligence on the matter i.e. the memo was purely a publicity stunt for the stupid (who happened to be FoxGOp viewers/listens)...

House Republican used a bullshit excuse to release this highly compromised and useless memo showing complicity in the disinformation campaign insiders to this scandal are pushing...

Turns out the Russians and the Republicans may be working closer together than we realize

(Russia helps them here too!)

Ultmately, it comes down to the simple reality for all fact based consumers that the rpeublcians are openly trying to shut down an investigation where ALL the evidence points to coverup and treason of some sort which shows what the republicans are made of.

America first....

The Following are news segments outlining how obvious this Nunes Memo con by the GOP is making it the perfect example of Obstruction Of Justice done by the GOP and Fox News to deceive the American people...First off, the Nunes memo was a dud...Nunes memo stunt blows up in GOP's face Rachel Maddow shows how key claims in the Nunes memo didn't even survive the

Ultimately what they have proven is the the GOP are willing to defy all thier oaths of office in favor of outright obstruction of justice. That they do it in a stupid manner just makes it easier to catch while making their evil intent apparent and obvious.

By defying the justice department to release the - ridiculous - Nunes memo and blocking the Democrats memo, Trump proved his intentions were not pro-transparency but anti-democratic...

To top it off, the Republicans didn't even have the sense to release the Democrats memo (probably because thier own memo was an obvious con) and thus we know that disinformation - i.e. obstruction of justice - IS thier primary motive!

All in all, the case to impeach Trump for Obstruction of Justice is now clear...Tribe: Trump 'orchestrating a massive cover-up' worse than NixonHarvard impeachment expert Laurence Tribe says we are seeing a “slow-motion constitutional crisis” and calls the White House “cover-up more serious than that of Richard Nixon.” Tribe also explains why firing FBI official Andrew McCabe builds a “strong case for obstruction of justice.”

So is Paul Ryan REALLY protecting civil liberties here with this obvious con by the GOP? Obviously not...What the Nunes memo is really about Paul Ryan says Republicans just want to protect civil liberties. But Trump is telling friends the memo could undermine the Russia probe.

As the Koch stooge Grover Norquist (who wants to drown the constitutional government in a bathtub) put it...

Leading this con in selling a poorly thought out series of lies to the American people is Fox news and Hannity...Did Hannity convince Trump to "release the memo"?The Fox News host has been aggressively hyping "one of the biggest scandals in American history" and, reportedly, advising the president.

Republicans and Fox news and clearly in bed together in their obstruction of justice charades...
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/02/12/sen-ron-johnson-and-rep-devin-nunes-are-feeding-fox-news-conspiracy-pipeline/219340
Sen. Ron Johnson and Rep. Devin Nunes are feeding the Fox News conspiracy pipeline Congressional Republicans team up with a credulous right-wing media to undermine the FBI’s Trump investigation

candals” that have powered conservative media coverage of the FBI’s Trump investigation: Senate homeland security committee chair Ron Johnson (R-WI) and House intelligence committee chair Devin Nunes (R-CA). Both have been repeatedly caught lying and ginning up controversy where there is none, and both have had phenomenal success in propagating falsehoods through conservative media outlets that don’t care whether what they report is true or not.

Late last month, Johnson went on Fox News to talk about “corruption at the highest levels of the FBI” as evidenced by a text message conversation between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that referenced a “secret society” -- presumably a cabal of powerful individuals plotting to illegitimately tar Trump’s presidency. The “secret society” talking point quickly permeated conservative media and became a focal point of outrage.

A couple of days later, the truth about the “secret society” text came out -- it was an obvious joke between the two officials. There was no secret society, and Johnson backpedaled by acknowledging the “real possibility” that the supposedly nefarious text message he’d highlighted as proof of a conspiracy just days earlier might, in fact, be nothing more than a gag.

Just a couple of weeks after that, Johnson was at it again. His committee released an “interim report” on the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton email scandal that once again highlighted specific texts between Strzok and Page. Among them was a September 2, 2016, text from Page regarding the creation of talking points for then-FBI Director James Comey. Page wrote that then-President Barack Obama “wants to know everything we’re doing.” According to the report, “This text raises additional questions about the type and extent of President Obama’s personal involvement in the Clinton email scandal and the FBI investigation of it.”

It's been 72 hours or so since the Devin Nunes Memo was released, and it's clear that despite wall-to-wall coverage, the entire spectacle changed nothing. For Fox News pundits and their associates in the GOP, it proves there was a conspiracy among FBI and Department of Justice leadership to destroy Donald Trump. For everyone else, it shows that the rationale for the Russia investigation was a legitimate line of inquiry.

Sean Hannity said that this memo makes clear that charges must be dropped against Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn -- for some reason, even though the latter has already pleaded guilty to a crime. Donald Trump Jr. ranted inanely that Democrats were both McCarthyites and "commies," which is a neat trick. He also said something truly reckless:

There is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family in a sense that if they wouldn't have done this, this stuff would be going on. This would be going on at the highest levels of government. They'd be continuing doing it to my father, trying to undermine his actions.

And here we all thought the president's decision to declassify the memo was all in the interest of transparency and national security.

...

Ryan was the ultimate enabler of this farce, signing off on the Nunes crusade, and Gowdy is the guy who read the underlying FISA warrant application documents on which the memo was based. So nobody should get too excited about their supposed "independence" on this. They were primary facilitators.

It's true that a few others have joined that chorus, signaling that at least a handful of Republicans don't want to be associated with the notion that this memo "vindicates" the president. (Notably, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was not among them.)

The House Intelligence chair and his team have told members and associates they've found other examples of politically motivated "wrongdoing" across various agencies, including the FBI, the broader Justice Department, and the State Department . . . Republicans close to Nunes say there could be as many as five additional memos or reports of "wrongdoing."

i.e. there is a whole campaign of half assed fake memos o come to try and obstruct justice for trump!

Other notable attempts of Obstruction of Justice...

Senator Grassley has turned out to be one of the biggest obstructors of all (actually hiding information from the people he is supposed to represent!)...

Notes:Notice, Congress is harassing the people researching the President to keep him straight - EXACTLY what we would expect in a dictatorship! (It's like Trump trying to silence a book about him)...

This is the most bullsh*t excuse one could come up with. This information NOW has to be protected to avoid tainting the memory of witnesses but if he had talked for 10 hours in public six months ago, that OK...

As Maddow puts it, that TWO arguments (a sure sign Grassley is lying)...

Another walk-through how Grassley and Lindsey Graham are acting like tyrants...Republicans, compliant FBI make progress undermining Russia probeRachel Maddow looks at how Republican interest in investigating Russia's intrusion in the 2016 election has turned over the course of the past year to an interest in undermining that investigation, and how the FBI has become more compliant as Trump and Republicans have stepped up attacks. Duration: 22:42

Step by step:Rather than investigate the claims about Trump the GOP wants to go after a person FOR investigating Trump in the first place (the very opposite of transparency and rule of law)...

Biggest indication that this is the GOP being compliant to thier 'dear leader' is that Trump himself asked GOP to stop the inquiry ...

Then Fox News, who Trump keeps stealing lies from for himself, jumps in with ideas to obstruct justice some more...

Investigating an investigator rather than the charges (its like going after a journalist for reporting the truth). The ultimate proof of treason...

Everyone in the GOP is involved in the obstruction...

Is the GOP's public pressure, instigated by Trump, to squash an independent investigation into Trump, working?

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